Mystery Counseling Session for Play Therapy: Personal LandscapeI selected Personal Landscape for my MCA. At first, I had no idea how to create this concept. The exploration of creating a Mystery Counseling project in class helped a lot with how it COULD be completed; I just could not decide on how to bring my selection to life. I felt every other person in the class had THE GOOD selection and I was stuck trying to make something out of something so simple. The truth was they were all GOOD selections; I was just overthinking the process in my opinion. So I sat down to complete my Mystery Counseling assignment, and I decided to create a toolbox that clients could pick from which would empower them to illustrate their own personal landscape. I used a regular shoebox as the toolkit to hold the various landscapes and manipulative for the clients to choose from. On the bottom of the box I tried to illustrate the world by using blue poster board and a few green felt cut outs to represent the continents. I cut paper plates in half to represent different landscapes such as: mountains grassy plains, beaches, etc. I added a few blank plates in for the client to use in whatever way they chose. I remembered what Dr. S told me when she stated that it would be concept of the assignment. So my example personal landscape of Cupcake Island was included to reassure the client that there was no right or wrong representation on THEIR landscape. This was another great activity and I can see the benefits to a potential client.

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